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Janae Nowinski
No need to hit pause. Use the ACDSee Mobile Sync app to send photos and videos directly from your mobile device into ACDSee Photo Studio on your Mac. This free app is available on iOS from the Apple App Store and for Android on the Google Play Store. When you return to home base, simply select and send to transfer your images, complete with any on-the-fly edits.
Couple of issues with ACDSee are: I always need to highlight the Exposure section or auto contrast will not be done despite it being saved in the preset; and I can't define, move around the cropping box, forcing me to manually crop tons of images.
I tried digiKam, but damn that thing is huge. It runs very slowly on my Pentium 4 and 1.5 GB RAM. On top of being a program with over 1 GB of files, the KDE library it uses is always slow regardless of it running on either Windows or Linux.
These tools & ImageMagick are also cross platform if needed on Linux & Windows. I tend to use them via Cygwin on Windows but only because it allows me to use the shell script. You could just as easily do it all with a Windows command batch script or even get clever with an HTML Application script (.HTA) which could give you a GUI very easily.
I think this tool can help with those specially easily. I created a simple windows 10 app myself for those features specially for specific watermark/signature positioning whatever the size ratio is along witch quick photo and file size optimization for web. I wish others also use it except myself :)
ACDSee offers its software as a one-time download for $149.99 or as a subscription starting at $89 per year (or $8.90 per month). The subscription lets you install the software on up to five devices (Mac or Windows) and gives you access to ACDSee Web galleries for showcasing your work, with 50GB of SeeDrive Cloud Storage included. You can buy 50GB more for $25 or 100GB for $50.
The Windows program, reviewed here, runs on Windows 7 SP1 through Windows 11, with 64-bit versions required. It also requires at least 4GB RAM (6GB RAM or more recommended), an Intel i5 or better processor, 512MB Video RAM (VRAM), a DirectX 10 compatible graphics adapter, 1,280-by-800 display resolution (1,920-by-1,080 recommended), and 4GB of available hard drive space.
I installed the application on a 3.4GHz Core i7-based PC with 16GB RAM and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card, where it occupied a little over 1GB of disk space. That's half Lightroom's 2GB footprint, but about double CyberLink PhotoDirector's.
No matter how you pay for the software, you need to sign up for an account and respond to a verification email. The program then restarts and has you choose a default photo folder. The next step is going through an introductory wizard with a quick start guide. It takes you through the program's setup and features and is thorough and helpful. After that, you're ready to edit photos.
After you decide which photo folders you want the program to monitor, ACDSee builds a catalog. This is a database that enables nondestructive editing, saving your edits separately from the original photo files. After editing, you simply export a version of the edited image. Lightroom uses a catalog in the same way. With either app, you can keep photos on whatever storage you like, and the catalog will keep track of its location. The catalog also stores any organization information you associate with a photo, such as keyword tags, ratings, notes, and more. As with most such software, ACDSee Photo Studio Professional prompts you to create a backup of the catalog file each month. If you're upgrading from an earlier version, you may need to convert your photo collection to the latest catalog version.
You can also use ACDSee as a Photoshop plug-in, convert Lightroom catalogs for it, and integrate with OneDrive for cloud storage. Once you finish the installation, ACDSee jumps you to its web video course for beginners hosted by the company's director of photography (and noted commercial photographer), Alec Watson.
The company continues to aggressively improve the software. For ACDSee veterans, here's a cheat sheet of the major new tools and features that arrived with the current version (in addition to new camera support):
Color Wheel for Pixel Targeting. This tool works with the Edit Brush to let you make local changes to lighting and color based on the existing pixel color value. It's especially useful for skin tones and skies.
An Import button atop the Manage mode lets you bring pictures in from devices, disks, scanners, or CD/DVD. On import, you can choose the disk folder destination and naming convention, but you can't apply adjustment presets, as you can in CyberLink PhotoDirector and Phase One Capture One Pro. If you just want to add photos on your hard drive to ACDSee's catalog, you can't do so in the import dialog; rather, you right-click the folder in Folders view and then choose Catalog files. Lightroom Classic lets you add photos from the same Import dialog. During import, you can see thumbnails of current files and a countdown of the number of files processed and left. Import with ACDSee Photo Studio was significantly slower than for other tested programs; see the Performance section below.
The program supports raw camera file formats from all the major camera models, including some newer ones such as the Canon EOS R6, Leica M11, Nikon Z 6, and Sony a7 IV. The raw import quality was acceptable, with decent sharpness and colors. Capture One and Lightroom produce the best image (left) in terms of color accuracy and sharpness. Of course, all the programs have tools that let you adjust those things, but it's good to compare what the program does by default, without requiring more work on your part.
You can also group photos into Collections and Smart Collections. To create a new collection, you right-click on the blank area in the left folder panel. It works, but it's not very intuitive. The Collection pane wasn't even enabled after installation; I had to turn it on from the Panes menu. Image baskets let you hold photos you want to work with in a temporary tray below the main display area. You can now create five image baskets, which appear as separate tabs.
The People mode button (it looks like two heads) at the top right makes working with face recognition easier. The program automatically processes all imported images with face detection (you can turn this behavior off in Settings if you prefer). Two tabs let you switch between Named and Unnamed faces. To get started, switch to Unnamed faces. After you've identified a few faces, name suggestion works with detected faces. Keep in mind that the technology finds art with faces and any random face in the background. It does a decent job of identifying those you name, though.
One fun organization feature is maps. ACDSee Photo Studio Professional can use GPS encoding in files that have it to show the images on a map. You can also drag photo thumbnails onto the map to create pins for their locations. There's no mode button for this as there is for People, and it's not even enabled by default. You have to go into the Panes menu and check its check box. The program highlights thumbnails shot in the location you select a pin on the map; I'd prefer it. Lightroom does a better job with maps, though, with thumbnail slideshows right on the map showing photos shot at the location.
Switching to Standard mode for the Light EQ tools presents detailed sliders that let you adjust more-specific levels, another good tool I haven't seen in other software. The Auto button only appears under the Light EQ controls when you open them, and you can click it to get the program's best-guess settings. Even cooler, you can adjust with a wand tool over the image that adjusts brightness based on the area under the cursor. It's sort of like the iPhone's "tap on the screen to set exposure and focus" feature, minus focus.
ACDSee handles cropping fairly well and is now available in Develop mode. It defaults to an unconstrained aspect ratio, which I prefer. I also like how you can hide the area outside the crop, and how spinning the mouse wheel changes the photo's angle. You can also straighten a photo with a guideline, but there's no tool for auto-straightening based on the horizon like Lightroom's. Note that the straightening tool is found in Develop mode's Geometry section.
Brushes (up to eight of them) offer feathering and tolerance settings for most Develop adjustments, but there's no subtract brush, only a Clear All Brushstrokes button. The Magic option does a nice job finding edges, even in complex areas like palm leaves. As mentioned, brush capabilities include vibrance, white balance, color overlay, color EQ (saturation, brightness, hue, and contrast), and tone curves. The last is a cool capability that I haven't seen elsewhere. You can't, however, use brushes with the Effects in Edit mode or with Skin smoothing. The Repair tool also disappointed me in that it didn't let me see the source area; even after I'd chosen a source, my result had unwanted textures applied. The Blended Clone option is better, but still gave me the same problem, though to a lesser degree. The Repair tool in Edit mode was more successful, and in that mode (see next section) you can use a brush with Skin Smoothing.
Select Sky didn't work as well as Adobe's similar tools in Lightroom and Photoshop. Notice how it missed some sky between the palm fronds on the left; Lightroom correctly identified the sky there. What's more, once you select the sky, there's no one-click way to replace it with a more dazzling one, as you can in Lightroom, Luminar, and Photoshop.
The Dehaze tool worked well enough on my test winter landscape shot, but it tends to jack up the color saturation more than I'd like. I do like that it offers a brush for applying dehaze just to selected areas of the photo. Adobe's similar tool also lets you add realistic haze; ACDSee's slider can only remove haze. DxO PhotoLab does the best job at haze removal out of the box with its automatic corrections, and it doesn't introduce a color cast, as Adobe and ACDSee do.
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